In Beneath the Willows, the author portrays that like her Indigenous ancestors, we often find ourselves repeating the old stories of the eerie things they have experienced. It is through these stories that we are reminded that paranormal events still exist today. We have to wonder how close is the spirit world? A dark spirit has walked among people for centuries learning their ways. In this book, the dark spirit learns of the trapped souls of the shape shifters buried beneath the willows and quickly takes control. The shape shifters not only become animals and birds, but they also now have the ability to step into human bodies, becoming as one. Strange disappearances begin to happen since that time.